Rihanna

And I think I was really naive and hopeful.

I think that happens a few times in my experience trying to protect girls at UCO.

You know, the first time we filed the Title IX report, Miranda did not feel comfortable disclosing that this relationship was happening.

And now she's going to.

And again, the adults in my life, they're going to get it right this time.

They didn't have all the information and they're going to do the right thing now.

And Kato is not going to have access to these young girls.

I was really proud of Miranda.

That stays true now, but I was just naively hopeful.

My name is Rihanna.

I was a student at UCO and I was abused by a professor named Kato.

I also witnessed multiple of my friends enter into abusive relationships with Kato.

I became enmeshed with Kato in the UCO theater department as a high school senior.

The first time I met him was at a parent's day for UCO.

It was a recruitment tool that he used.

I was the only student there without a parent.

My high school theater teacher was gracious and kind and she offered to take me and he actually singled me out during that very first meeting because I was the only student there without a parent.

I did a little audition for him and at the end of the day he actually followed my theater teacher and I out to the parking lot and got us alone for a minute and talked about how great I was, how impressed he was with me.

offered I'm going to give Rihanna all these scholarships and really just put the charm on me and my high school theater teacher from that point I had like a few more interactions with him while I was in high school I saw him at another theater audition college thing and he again singled me out talked to me about how talented I was I remember him saying something along the lines of like

Everyone here wants you, alluding to like they want to recruit you for their colleges, but also constantly bordering that line of suggestive and inappropriate.